RPM Package on Centos 7

[Former user]

Hi m trying to build rpm package for piler 1.1.1

so I have installed rpm build with directory structure: BUILD BUILDROOT RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS

cd /root/rpmbuild/SPECS I have piler.spec file from this link https://bitbucket.org/mivolz/piler/src/7d139629fb55634b5947c7bbe15dbfb8c8a8e506/redhat/piler.spec?at=master

In cd /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES I have downloaded piler-1.1.1.tar.gz

then in cd /root/rpmbuild/SPECS I am trying to build

rpmbuild -bb piler.spec

I have this error: RPM build errors: File not found: /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/piler-1.1.1-1.x86_64/etc/init.d/rc.pilergetd

[Janos SUTO]

If everytime when a bogus "major bug" is filed took away just a single day from my lifetime, then I'd be dead already.

I think you know the problem: you copied the spec file from another project. No disrespect for Michael's fork, but that spec file is based on piler-0.1.25, a never released interim version, and you have piler-1.1.1 which doesn't have the pilergetd stuff any more.

[Former user]

sorry I have send you wrong link I am using your updated spec file for piler 1.1.1.

%define name piler
%define version 1.1.1
%define release 1

Summary:        an email archiving application
Name:           %{name}
Version:        %{version}
Release:        %{release}
License:        gpl
Group:          Networking/Mail
Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
URL:            http://www.mailpiler.org/
Buildroot:      /tmp/aa
BuildRequires:  openssl-devel, tcp_wrappers-devel, poppler-utils, libzip-devel, catdoc, mysql-devel, tnef, unrtf, tre-devel
Requires:       mysql, openssl, tcp_wrappers, libzip, poppler-utils, catdoc, tnef, unrtf, tre, httpd, php, php-mysql
Provides:       libpiler.so()(64bit)

%description
piler is an email archiving application.

%prep
%setup

%build
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-starttls --enable-tcpwrappers --with-database=mysql
make clean all

%install
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d
make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT

# Gotta also copy over a few other things
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/www
cp -ar %{_topdir}/BUILD/%{name}-%{version}/webui $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/piler/www

mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/piler
cp -r %{_topdir}/BUILD/%{name}-%{version}/contrib $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/piler

# Fix the base piler.conf file
cp -f %{_topdir}/BUILD/%{name}-%{version}/etc/example.conf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/piler.conf.dist

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%dir /var/piler
%dir /var/piler/tmp
%dir /var/piler/sphinx
%dir /var/piler/store
%dir /var/piler/stat
%dir /var/run/piler
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/pileraget
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/pilerexport
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/pilerget
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/pilerpurge
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/pilerimport
%attr(6555,piler,piler) /usr/bin/reindex
/etc/init.d/rc.piler
/etc/init.d/rc.pilergetd
/etc/init.d/rc.searchd
%attr(0640,root,piler) /etc/piler.conf
/etc/sphinx.conf.dist
/usr/sbin/piler
/usr/sbin/pilergetd
/usr/sbin/pilerconf
/usr/lib64/libpiler.a
/usr/lib64/libpiler.so
/usr/lib64/libpiler.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpiler.so.0.1.1
/usr/libexec/piler/daily-report.php
/usr/libexec/piler/generate_stats.php
/usr/libexec/piler/gmail-imap-import.php
/usr/libexec/piler/indexer.delta.sh
/usr/libexec/piler/indexer.main.sh
/usr/libexec/piler/import.sh
/usr/libexec/piler/postinstall.sh
/usr/libexec/piler/purge.sh
/usr/share/piler/db-mysql-root.sql.in
/usr/share/piler/db-mysql.sql


%pre
groupadd piler
useradd -g piler -s /bin/sh -d /var/piler piler
usermod -L piler
if [ -d /var/piler ]; then chmod 755 /var/piler; fi


%post
chown -R piler:piler /var/run/piler /var/piler
echo /usr/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/piler.conf
ldconfig
echo this is the postinstall stuff...
echo run /usr/libexec/piler/postinstall.sh manually to configure piler

%postun
userdel piler
groupdel piler


%changelog
* Tue Feb 24 2015 Janos Suto
  - 1.1.1 release of piler

* Fri Nov  1 2013 Janos Suto
  - Fixed a bug causing issues when reading the retention|archiving_rules tables

* Fri Oct 25 2013 Janos Suto
  - First release of the rpm package based on build 846

#!rpm build

[Janos SUTO]

What I've written, still stands.

[Former user]

I just comment /etc/init.d/rc.pilergetd line in spec file. As you say I checked there is no pilergetd in piler-1.1.1 .

[eXtremeSHOK]

This thread is amusing.

Centos 7 uses system.d and not sysinit.

[Janos SUTO]

The spec file was unmaintained, so I've cut it for good.

[Michael]

I am working on an up-to-date .spec file that should be at least useable for CentOS 7. However, this will take some time since I've been running into some trouble with the configure script and how it requires an existing piler user in the %build process.

So I first need to figure out how to workaround this issue...

[Former user]

Thanks Michael It would be really helpful.

[Michael]

Ok, I can't remember anymore why I thought last time it would be a bigger issue to make a .spec file.

Probably because it was few days before christmas and my head was already in holidays... lol

I'am now having a working (i.e. buildable) .spec file done and now I need to test the build and may put some fine-tuning into it. Whatsoever, I am pretty confident that I can already show you guys a publishable .spec file soon ;)

[Former user]

hey Michael can u share ur spec file so that I can check where I am doing wrong?

[Michael]

You can find a first draft of my spec file and patches here: https://github.com/donmichelangelo/rpm-specs/tree/master/el7/piler

• I recommend to use mock to build the .spec file

• In case that you want to build piler for CentOS 6 you'll have to compile tre >= 0.8.0 yourself. Perhaps Janos could provide a buildfix to compile piler with tre 0.7.6 which can be found in base/EPEL repos of CentOS 6 which appears to be too old.

• Since it is a draft the .spec file doesn't produce RPM files which I would call production-ready, at least not yet...

However, compilation works and you can install the RPM file, although you'll probably have to setup the Sphinx and Webserver Config parts yourself.

So basically, when you execute the postinstall.sh it could happen that not everything is being configured automatically and you have to rework some of the stuff yourself.

I'am working on the latter part but couldn't find the time last week to finish this stuff ;)

[Former user]

OK Thanks

[Janos SUTO]

tre 0.7.6 is obsolete, and NOT supported, sorry. Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone would pick centos 6 instead of the newer centos 7 using a fresh install. Which should be the case with piler.

[Michael]

Except the old tre version piler 1.2.0 compiles just fine on CentOS 6 and CentOS/RHEL 6 is still supported until November 2020.

I've just included CentOS 6 compatilbity in the .spec file because there are also Sphinx RPMs for CentOS 6 available and because that C6 is still widely present in companies.

However, my .spec won't compile on CentOS 6 unless you have newer versions of tre and tre-devel available to install.

So, if you don't intend to support CentOS 6 I'll probably ditch the support again and leave it just as a hint in the spec file that piler "could" be built for CentOS 6.

[Janos SUTO]

No, I don't plan to support 0.7.6 tre. I suggest to grab 0.8 from epel.